Young Comedian

Brooke was a young woman who became one of YouTube’s first stars during the first year of its existence. During the spring of 2006, MADtv casting director Nicole Garcia was tasked with recruiting young talent. While browsing the Internet, she came across some of Brooke’s videos and fell in love with her comedy. She felt that the young comedian had potential and could help revitalize the aging series. After Garcia sent the email offering Brooke a contract to join the cast of MADtv, she responded immediately and accepted the deal.

Brooke, along with her mother moved from New England to California when filming on the twelfth season began during the summer of 2006. Beforehand, she took acting classes so she could improve her abilities. Brooke played second fiddle to main cast members such as Michael McDonald and Jordan Peele because she was a featured player. Despite this, shortly after her debut, she starred in a Wizard of Oz/Lonelygirl15 mashup called Dorothygale15. The skit became a recurring sketch throughout the next few seasons in part due to being well-received by longtime fans and its cheap budget.

Halfway through production of the season, Brooke was promoted to repertory status. During the second-half of the twelfth season and the following one, she began impersonating celebrities such as Jamie Lynn Spears and Paris Hilton. At the end of the thirteenth season, Fox canceled the show as a result of its expensive budget and the 2007/08 WGA Strike negatively affecting the series. However after the network negotiated with Comedy Central, the latter channel picked up the series for two additional seasons.

The fourteenth season saw an increase in the show’s budget, the hiring of new writers, a new Friday-night time-slot and a brand-new format to the series. It also would be the last for several cast members such as Nicole Parker and Bobby Lee. Out of all of the main cast members during this season, Brooke was the only one present in every single episode. Her wide range of impersonations from this era include Ellen DeGeneres, Taylor Swift, Kelly Ripa, and then-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

Sometime after 2010, Brooke had completely abandoned YouTube as a career. Despite this, she was still mostly recognized as a YouTuber by most people. During breaks in between seasons, she had taken classes in filmmaking to further improve her abilities.

Brooke briefly considered leaving the series after season 19, however the producers convinced her to stay, After Hillary Clinton announced her campaign for president in 2015, Brooke revived her impersonation of Clinton in the twentieth season’s penultimate episode. Her impression would become a recurring element throughout the two following seasons, which received higher ratings compared to the previous ones.

In 2017, Brooke surpassed Michael McDonald as MADtv’s longest tenured cast member.